1. dejected, distressed, afflicted, woeful, woebegone, forlorn, unhappy. 2. Wretched,miserable,sorry refer to that which is unhappy, afflicted, or distressed. Wretched refers to a condition of extreme affliction or distress, especially as outwardly apparent: wretched hovels.Miserable refers more to the inward feeling of unhappiness or distress: a miserable life.Sorry applies to distressed, often poverty-stricken outward circumstances; but it has connotations of unworthiness, incongruousness, or the like, so that the beholder feels more contempt than pity: in a sorry plight.3. base, vile.